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  • verb archaic Second-person singular past simple form of hear

Etymologies

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heard +‎ -est

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Examples

  • And he answered, Because thou heardest me say that I had with me goods whose owner was drowned, thou thinkest to take them without right; but this is forbidden by law to thee, for we saw him drown before our eyes, together with many other passengers, nor was one of them saved.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But Musa answered, O man, heardest thou not what the Lady saith on this tablet?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thereupon she gave me some water, saying, “As soon as thou see her asleep, sprinkle this liquid upon her and speak what words thou heardest me utter, so shall she become whatsoever thou desirest.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Replied the wolf, For all my want of confidence in thy fidelity, verily I knew what was in thy mind and that thou wast moved to deliver me whenas thou heardest my repentance, and I said to myself, ‘If what he asserteth be true, he will have repaired the ill he did; and if false, it resteth with the Lord to requite him.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Replied Amjad, We have no wish; and my only charge to thee is that thou set my brother below and me above him, that the blow may fall on me first, and when thou hast killed us and returnest to the King and he asketh thee, ‘What heardest thou from them before their death?’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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